Wardens

As a chess player, this looked interesting, but I can't recommend it. It's basically just chess, but the pieces have boring abilities, their movement is unchanged. Board readability is terrible, all the pieces (both yours and your opponent's) look too similar and so everything blends together until you can't figure out what is happening anymore. There's no tutorial, and the AI you can play against is terrible, if you're decent at chess you will easily crush it.

After having played this game extensively since I acquired it, I am posting this review in the hopes of addressing the points made in the negative review above, as the reviewer clearly does not understand the purpose of this game. This is going to be somewhat lengthy, will try to summarize at the top. TLDR; Pro's and con's below. If you came here expecting standalone chess look elsewhere, if you are interested in a sandbox experience where you can create your own units read on. First and foremost I would like to point out something that I believe is the reason for said reviewers negative perception of this game, and that is that Wardens is NOT chess. If you go into Wardens expecting standalone chess, you will be disappointed. At present the only resemblance this game has to chess is the movement and arrangement of the pieces (for now), and that it is played on a chess board. However, despite one of the default game types being Capture the King, Wardens lacks practically all other basic chess rules, such as en passante, castling, and most importantly, check. As your goal in the aforementioned game mode is to KILL the king, not checkmate him. This was done so as to introduce the …

I think this game is worth buying. I am having a try making some new pieces and changing graphics as well for vanilla pieces. The game play with Faerie Chess Pieces is fun ,if you like alternate moves and powers. Game look good too ,with move / special animations and a nice Card to symboliize your on map Piece as well.